Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 26

4 4 i it DETECTIVES WILL BE IN FORCE AT i DIVORCE WITNESS TO TELL OF JUMP FROM A TAXI i i OCKER WEDDING i L. iK Jl 11 11: 1 a f-od play they got from the gullible and unsus- "And jiito think the darned vessel had to strike that iceberg and sink when we were $10,000 to the good and saw that much more in sight before reaching: New York," remarked one. 'Tes, it was the hardest kind of luck for us," chipped in the other sure-thing sport presume that is the burden of their story to all of their ilk. Taste in Floral Decoration Fred Sharon, one of the of the Palace, prides himself on his taste in floral decorations as well as in matters of costly architecture. He was on the job with the former a few days ago, assisting in matters of advice and suggestion the two women artists, who make much money from the rich in doing all kinds of floral display for luncheons, dinners, weddings and whatnot The occasion was his formal farewell dinner to his nephew, Thomas F.

Hesketh of England, and the latter's wife. This couple has been much-feted during the six weeks they have been here. The Fred Sharon dinner at the Palace in cost in gorgeous display was a fitting climax. I suppose" it was because of the brilliancy of the varied floral colors that It was alluded to in the society columns of the press' as a "durbar the durbar for King George and Qneen Mary at Delhi many things have been given that name, ranging from vari-colored bars of ice cream to costly dress goods for milady. By the way, the service of the dinner on this occasion was the last noted piece of work of Victor Reiter, who ha3 left us to become manager of your city's new and large hotel.

LooK Out for the Pannier SKirt of how the Four Hundred do these things aswould be the case were it to occur in San When Jennie Crocker's aunt, Mr3. Alexander -of New York, the former Hattie Crocker, was married at the family mansion-on Nob Hill some twenty-five years ago, Chief of Police Crowley, and his cohorts had a struggle to keep the crowd back from the very doors. The more curious at times hardly be said mr wenty years ago when Hermann Oelrichs came out in William K. Vanderbilt's private car to claim Tessie Fair as his bride similiar scenes were at the Fair mansion near Pine and Jones streets. There were detectives on watch at these events, too, but not the number who will be at the nuptials of Jennie Crocker and her young widower fiance from out of the East Cling to the Old Cuisine I have had something to say during the past few Sundays about how the Chinese revolution is causing the local Mongolion colony to discard queues and adopt American clothing.

Rambling through the Chinese quarter the other evening, it was called to my attention that the effects of the revolution have not as yet made any perceptible dent in this foreigner's cuisine. The Chinaman I refer to the progressive and well-to-do still dotes on his bowl of stewed duck cooked without salt roast suckling pig, forcemeat balls, chicken anji grilled fish. Soup3 of birds' nests and also of sea slugs are still highly prized as are also candied strips or bits of pork. The dried birds' nests, which look like packages of isinglass, are being imported from the Orient as much as ever, the best bringing $12 per packet of forty. The later consist mostly of pure mucus, secreted by the large salivary glands in the throats of certain remarkably little birds.

A gourmand of the race told me that from the points of taste and nourishment there was no reason why he should alter or change his dishe3 in favor of the American or European cuisine. Birds' nest soup had survived the Mancnu overthrow and would be a favorite dish of, the Chinaman for ages, was one of his predictions. Passing' of Notable Character Nathaniel J. Brittan, the" wealthy land owner of San Carlos and Pacific Union and Pres Club memr ber, who died a few days ago at his home near Redwood City, was a most interesting character and a thorough Spanish scholar. When Admiral Dewey won the battle of Manila -Bay, he asked the Washington authorities to send Brittan out to him as his official Dewey and Brittan had often met and talked at the Pacific Union and the former knew the capabilities of the latter in the matter of understanding the Spanish character and the language.

Dewey's letter to the authorities about Brittan attracted their attention to him. They decided to employ him themselves for certain purposes during the war. This is why Dewey did not get the interpreter he first asked for. Always in affluent circumstances, Brittan': traveled much abroad, with a special fondness for Spam. He studied at first hand the famous Alhambra, saw many other places that Washington Irving has written so charmingly about and was a student of the art and literature of the land.

A man of strong likes and dislikes and a lover of the right, he was really the man who started the crusade in San Mateo county against the A. Mon Chateau and Northern Club, gambling resorts just over the line from this city, which finally closed them. Brittan figured that those institutions cleaned up an aggregate of $350,000 before they were put out of one lawyer of this city alone, a friend of his, losing to those gamblers in two years $40,000 of their total clean-up. Some of Hobart' MonKey Shines Walter S. Hobart, whose social and polo diver "A- IP U' Oil La Ml I 1 mi i I 1 mn i 1 MM 1 WQ11 1 A1 ItOH The pannier skirt has appeared on the street here, with its bunched or enlarged folds of tKer dress at and running down from the hips.

This man's quick eye saw this latest bit of fashion. "There is where the women will eventually carry their money and valuables," was his comment "and (he pickpocket will find them easier there than in the detachable or other bag3 women hare long carried." Frequently a customer at hia place, I got him to talk a little of the past "A woman's stocking is the safest place for her valuables," he essayed as one comment "Did you ever get any of them from there?" I asked. "No, but others have stolen from the stocking by ilitting it when there's a crowd," was bis reply. The hat brim and the bag were the main quest of the "dip" in seeking to rob a woman, especially this bag, he observed. Frequently the stocking was probably would win the prize from both of these ladies in the art so to speak, of worshiping at the shrine of-My Lady Nicotine.

Perhaps this may be -due ta the fact the Countess de Swirsky smoked cigars as well as cigarettes, thus giving her a more varied and gripping command in. toying with the fragrant product They Were Not Titled Couple Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lowndes of London, have been visiting the coast for a couple of months, spending most of their time at the Fairmont and at i Los Gatos, are shortly to return home. One enterprising newspaper correspondent recently insisted that the couple were "Lord and Lady Lowndes" of England traveling incognito and wrote a story to that effect much to their disgust and the amusement of the few who know them out here.

Lowndes is a native of California, having been born in the' Mission district of this city. Carroll Cook, the attorney, i3 one of his relaitves. He has lived most of his life in England, but has some property interests in this State. His wife is an accomplished English woman. Bojth are successful members of the stage across the Atlantic, especially in the "provinces" the name that all of Great Britain outside of London is known by to the lordly Londoners.

With his monocle and with Mrs. Lowndes in male attire and with short cut hair, the couple made an interesting picture in and around Los Gatos on their daily walks and horseback rides. Harriman's Fight With Roosevelt One in a position to know tells me that a certain." New Yorker amply qualified for the position has been engaged in place of George W. Batson, lately deceased, to finish the biography of Edward H. Harriman.

He refused to divulge the name, but said the man was peculiarly fitted to deal with some of the most interesting events in Harriman's life because of a personal knowledge of them. One of these events is Harriman's, famous quarrel with President Roosevelt over the $260,000 campaign contribution in 1904. At the time, this man advised the railroad magnate not to get into a quarrel with Roosevelt "Why?" was the magnate's quick question. "Take large view of policy in this matter," was the Insistent reply. 1 It is said Harriman argued that as Roosevelt had played fast and loose with him, and that the only wise policy was to fight himj The fight that ensued is, of course, well known.

Some of the best friends of the magnate, even to this day, when 'the perspective for calm judgment on the matter is good, think he made a very big mistake to engage in such a quarrel because of the legacy of troubles and hates it left for the magnate himself and all his business associates. They believed then that Roosevelt was Janus-faced and still is. Harriman, however, is said never to have regretted his motive and share in the quarrel and would have done it over agaht under similar provocations on the ground that he did not have to and would not resort to expediency with a "man he could not trust But He Caught No Fish There is a well known photographer of your city who, when not busily engaged at his profession, dreams of angling and the thrill that comes when a fighting trout has seized the fly and the reel sings that sweetest song to the fisherman's ears. He had planned and planned for several months to go up into the Feather River region and there njoy several'days at his favorite sport. He told his friends along the line about this prospective piscatorial expedition and each and all furnished him a bottle of bait.

Laden with these spoils he hastened home on the eve of his departure and proceeded to get his tackle in order and to pack his grip, paying particular attention to a pair of pet shoes especially designed to be worn as he scrambled over the rocks that line the turbulent streams where he proposed to cast his luck. Before dawn the next morning he was up and ready for th fishing. Jo his dismay he found that, as he expressed shoes he had brought along were both "left handed." He was several hundred miles away from home and the only thing he could do was to make the best of it and try to wear the left foot shoe on the right foot He tried it but an hour's tramping along the river was too much and he crawled back to the hotel with his foot chafed and bruised by the ill fitting shoe. He caught no fish and he is even now, with a poultice of scraped carrot, endeavoring to ward off a threatened blood poisoning. He brought back none of the bottled bait.

She Knew Her Husband's Habits Up in the Elks' Club the other day they were talking about a certain well-known bon vivant "You know," said a traveling man, "Blank is an awfully good fellow. He told me again and again that if I ever came into town late' he wanted me to come out to his no matetr what hour of the night 'If I'm not home the wife will let yoaJn and we always have a spare guest room, so reinber and don't sleep anywhere "Well, what happened?" nothing much only the "other night I did reach the city pretty late and about 1 o'clock in th morning I rang the bell of Blank's house. I rang, and I rang, and finally an upstairs window opened and Mrs. Blank put out her head. It was pretty dark.

"Excuse me," I said, "Does Mr. Blank live "Yes," came the weary reply. "Bring him in!" Fire-eating City Editor There is one fire-eating city editor on this side of the bay who has Vesuvius backed off the boards. His stenographer heard him the other day talking to a reporter over the telephone. It was something Iik6 this "What's that? They won't let you in! You say they threaten to shoot you if you don't go Well, kick the door down and report results." THE KNAVE.

food supplies, especially meats, continue to advance in prices, and if waiters and other help demanded and got increased wages, then, as a matter of reason, charges must be increased. Mr. Johnson, he remarked, i3 heavily interested in fuel oil. He ventured to say that Mr. Johnson could not fedict whether the hotels would be charged higher price for the fuel oil they used by the time the fair rolled around.

The editors back of the Johnson hotel rate idea, he also said, could not tell whether they might not increase advertising charges by 1915. He said San Francisco hotel men had no thought of jumping rates on fair visitors merely because they came to see the. exposition in large numbers. ThinK California the Place Three worthy and wealthy Jews of this city I. W.

Hellman, Leopold and Henry Heyneman are just at present in Europe on health and pleasure bent Hellman, who is a banker and- a heavy owner of choice realty in this city, Los Angeles and other parts of the State, is certainly the richest banker in California and probably its wealthiest citizen. Henry E. Huntington is the wealthiest man living in the State, but he claims Oneonta, N. as the place of his citizenship. Michaels and Heyneman are in the millionaire class.

A relative of, one of this trio remarked the other evening that they recently met in Paris by accident Israel Zangwill, one of the noted living writers of their race. Zangwill'a hobby is Palestine for the Jews, believing in the movement he has been keeping alive that his race should again people the old Biblical land. They took issue with same as Jacob H. Schiff, Otto F. Kahn and many leading Hebrews of New York have done time and again when Zangwill voiced his views on the subject to them.

The absent trio of Californians think this State is the best spot on earth for both Jew and Gentile and that in the years following the opening of the' Panama canal many of both kinds will come direct here from Europe to settle. Schiff is the' head of a big movement which has for several years been directing people of his race from Europe to Texas and other states in order to get them away from the crowded tenement conditions of New York'and other Eastern cities and give them a better chance to get a gobd start in the United States. He and his confreres, like the' Sari, Francisco trio, see only a pleasing sentiment in the Zangwill hobby and not a good bread and butter movement Great Wheat Deal Recalled AprtJpM of I noticed In last 'Sunday's cablegrams that Mrs. John W. Mackay, formerly of this city and Nevada and widow of one of the bonanza kings, is now in London again in fairly good health in view of her Mackay and Flood owned the Nevada Bank up to 1887, George L.

Brander being its managing director. It was Brander who got the bank into its famous and disastrous wheat deal by which it was sought to comer the market of the world. There is a romantic story that Mrs. Mackay got the first idea of that wheat corner and suggested it to Brander. I give the tale or what it is worth, having recently heard it again for the sixth- time.

When it failed and Brander was forced out of the bank, sh is said to have come to his rescue in his financial extremity with her individual check for $100,000. He is now living in London. Mackay and Flood were generally credited at the time with losing $16,000,000 on the deal. This is probably the largest loss of the kind in the history of the country. The deal of Joe Lefter of Chicago in the nineties was also a disaster arid is said to have cost his family $15,000,000.

-The deals and losses of the Armours of Chicago, father and son, of James A. Patton of Chicago, of Theodore H. Waterman of Albany, N. and of a host of others do not compare with the two former. The bitter enemy of Mackay and Flood, Senator Fair, came to the rescue of the Nevada Bank.

A million was carted Into it from the Bank of California overnight for the run on it the next day. With Fair in charge and plenty of money in sight, the run soon stopped. Hellman at this time was banking in Los Angeles and wished to spread out Fair sold him control of the Nevada Bank, the son of Flood remaining a director and small owner. Later, Hellman made a deal with E. H.

Harrimari by which the latter's Wells-Fargo Bank was combined with the Nevada, forming the Wells-Fargo Nevada National Bank of today, with Hellman as its president a position he has no intention of relinquishing in view of his control of it And his present good health. Army of Detectives at Wedding It Is whispered that twenty and odd professional sleuths of a big agency here hve already been engaged to be on hand at the marriage of Jennie Crocker to Malcolm Whitman at San Mateo on July 16 next and also to da their sleuthing duty afterwards at the gala reception at her country home not far awjay. A large force of San Mateo county constabulary will attend to the wof of keeping the crowds of the curious at a respectable distance. Henry T. Scott is represented as being the man who is attending to all of these arrangements so necessary in these modern days when the rich of the land get As the marriage ceremony and wedding feast are to be held in the country, there' will not be the jam of outsiders to try and get a giimpsa as inconvenient for the woman- as for the thied Depositions in Divorce Suit Some depositions are being taken here in a di sions made him a failure as a mining manager an magnate some twelve or fourteen years ago, has (VI 4, 1 I l-Vt vorce suit, which are to be used on behalf, of Mrs.

of an Eastern city, at Reno, where, she is at present preparing to legally separate herself from her husband, a well-to-do professional man. A young woman has given one of these depositions. No, it will not do at all to mention her the story runs, she met the gay husband of the pretty member of the Reno colony a number of ttoies. He was kind, entertaining, had plenty of rpney. and spent some of it on hef.

Automobile and taxicab rides followed. She did not know the man was married until his wife came and told her. She had already quit associating with him, however. She said she promised to assist the wife in divorcing him Tor his duplicity and conduct Her taxi rides with Mr. were proper at first from the standpoint of his conduct But as the taxicab rides increased, he kept sitting closer and closer to her until she objected.

On his promise to act gentlemanly, she went on another taxicab ride with him. That night she jumped out of the machine while it was going at a lively clip. "Why did you endanger life and limb by jumping from the fast speeding machine?" is, it is alleged, the last question in the deposition of the young woman asked of her by the wife's legal representative. The latter refuses to say what answer was given his question. Hotel Rates for 1915 Frank L.

Johnson, one of the ranama-Pacific Ex-positionVdi rectors and a splendidAbooster for it re- ccntly returned from Europe, had something to say tbout San Francisco hotels giving pledges not td raise rates during the time the world is visiting the 1315 fair. There were- some editprial expressions In of the Johnson stand. It is well to premise that of all the twenty leading cities in the States San Francisco has the finest kind of reputation for not' elevating hotel rates on the occasion of big conventions that have gathered here. Until about a year ago, the regular daily rates of the two lest hotels in Los Angeles were'hlgher than with the threa leading local caravansaries." A very able and successful hotel manager here? F.ad last evening, cpropos of 1915 hotel changes, that he could not give a guess what, they would be. If decided penchant for pastime stunts on stairways.

His latest feat in this respect is to try and walk up and down a flight of stairs on iys hands in Imitation of that titled Englishman, Lord Tweedmouth, who played polo on the coast last Tweedmouth did the acrobatic novelty quite handily at Coronado "when the fit was on him." Hobart, who is practicing for seven days, is supposed to formally produce his similar little play at the Burlingame Club today or tomorrow. Once Walter rolled down the stairway at the sariie club. This was several years before the fire. It may have been an accident perhaps a voluntary display of a varied and novel agility. I am not sure which, the time that has elapsed making memory a little bit hazy.

Anyhow, roll down to the bottom of the steps he did and he did not like to be reminded of it by even his intimates afterwards. He is not averse, however, to having his chums talk of the time he rode a polo pony up and down the stairs of the same institution. It is part of the history of the old Burlingame Club, the one destroyed by fire several years ago. It was dare-devil prank, intended to frighten an old member asleep on the second floor out of his wits. It succeeded.

Princess Fond of Cigarettes Princess Rospigliosi, who was born a Reid in New Orleans from fine Kentucky parents, has completed a long visit to California ana is now en route to Italy to rejoin her elderly husband of most distinguish lineage. Family affairs were, the compelling cause of the beautiful woman Virip to the coast. They being disposed of, she had, 'with the Whittell family, plenty of fun and recreation. With Sir Henry and Lady Blasse of England, the princess had great sport at Catalina in fishing for tuna and the albacore, especially the silver button variety of the latter. Her fondness for the cigarette at all times and places made her the cynosure for many eyes of the two sexes, both here and in the south.

For both gracefulness and enjoyment in the use of the little weed no one resident on this coast can compare to Princess Rospigliasi with the exception of the Countess Rojestvensky, the dashing wife 'of the Russian, consul-general. One visiting woman of title, who was at the Fairmont about fourteen months ago, the Countess de Swirsky of Russia, C9..